Producers of the ‘La Tutfe’ al-Shams’ TV series have apologized for a shot from the 14th episode, which was aired on Friday, showing actor Ahmed Malek walking beside a wall with ‘C.C is a traitor’ scrawled on it in Arabic.

The featured graffiti against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi raised widespread controversy among social media users, heightened by the fact that Malek was accused of humiliating police officers due to a controversial prank on Police Day/ the fifth anniversary of the January 2011 revolution, earlier this year.